Hi there, welcome to your Monday morning dose of photographic fantasmagoria, The Cosmic Photo Challenge.
This week we’re getting creative with our indoor greenery, with the prompt; The art of houseplants.
I try to take good care of my growing collection of housebound horticulture, so it’s nice to showcase the plants in their very own photoshoot. I also made a few artistic edits.
I love the way this one sheds excess water with its crying leaves
Now it’s time to share some shots of your indoor vegetation…
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post. Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge
Good morning, welcome to a new week and a new Cosmic Photo Challenge to start your Monday with a bang, or at least a snap.
This week’s challenge is all about; Distortion.
As I cheekily suggested in Friday’s prompt, this could be a chance to play with editing features you maybe hadn’t experimented with before. But any images of distorted objects, shots taken through an obscuring surface, etc. however you wish to interpret the theme is, as always, up to you.
I used an app called Glitch Lab to produce my pictures, the originals of which I have also included for reference.
Now let’s see what sort of twist you gave the prompt this week…
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post. Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge
Hi there, it’s time for The Cosmic Photo Challenge to start your week, with today’s theme being; Symmetry.
I used the natural forms of ferns and trees to create my symmetrical artworks, their fronds and branches making wonderfully intricate patterns when multiplied.
Now let’s see if you were in a reflective mood at the weekend…
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post. Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge
Hi there, I hope you had a good weekend, now there’s just the small matter of The Cosmic Photo Challenge to attend to, before you plunge headlong into another Monday.
This week your mission was to; Pick a shape.
Any shape will do, as long as it somehow informs your choice of pictures, whether that’s by subject matter or design.
I decided to go with circles, using two separate layouts to create my images; a random selection of circular household objects for one; and some records from my collection, chosen for their colourful vinyl (and a small rug), for the other.
Now let’s see what geometric journey you went on this week…
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post. Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Well, hello there, how the devil are you all this fine autumn morning? Welcome to another splendiferous edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which today concentrates its creative focus on images that are; Art for art’s sake.
You probably won’t be all that surprised to learn that I stuck with my chosen oeuvre and constructed some photo collages to meet this week’s brief.
I had two initial ideas; firstly to use a shot of the tubular steel rings in my interesting perspective post as concentric frames for three separate images; secondly to try and give the impression of the sea rushing out of an open doorway.
The first concept wasn’t a problem and I was very pleased with how that one came out. It contains 11 individual photos, all painstakingly placed, erased and blended by hand. However, I couldn’t find a suitable shot of a doorway for the second one and, due to my impatience and tendency to get sidetracked, I chose a photo of the pannier market to flood, instead. I believe that one is made from 9 carefully layered components. (Each composition took roughly two hours to complete)
Then on Saturday night, while looking for something completely unconnected, I stumbled upon a perfect candidate for my doorway idea, so I produced a third, bonus collage, which could even be the best of the lot, see what you think.
I think my favourite part of this one is the swan in the cloudsThose stalactites on the ceiling are actually only three inches longA second appearance by Death (he’s also a stall holder in the market, above), along with my favourite ever bird photo
Where did your artistic muse lead you over the weekend..?
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post. Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Hello and welcome to The Cosmic Photo Challenge, where this week we’re picturing all things; Halloween.
I have to admit I only chose the theme because I know a lot of people around the world celebrate the occasion, so I was relying on the efforts of my neighborhood to provide me with suitable subject matter.
However, when I went out searching for inspiration, not one house in the area had any decorations up, leaving me at a bit of a loss what to do.
So I created a couple of strange Halloween composite selfies, instead. (The “masks” are in fact the giant skull decoration and trick or treat bucket, below)
All Death’d up and nowhere to goThe Spirit Of Halloween is sad nobody is making an effort
Did you have more success finding some spooky images..?
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post. Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Good morning, welcome to The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which this week is getting all artistic, with the prompt; Art for art’s sake.
I have once again gone for a collage piece, throwing an impromptu festival in my garden at the weekend.
Behold; “CosPhoChalstock”
What inspired creations do you have to share with us..?
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post. Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Hi there, it’s Monday again, so let’s dive straight in with The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which this week is based around the prompt; Pick a colour.
All your images this week should feature one colour of your choosing and I chose blue.
I decided to showcase my chosen colour to the exclusion of all others.
What colourful offerings do you have for us today..?
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post. Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Another weekend successfully navigated, now we just have to get through the upcoming week, starting off with The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which today is concerned with; Symmetry.
I chose to create all my images from one photograph; namely this rather handsome piece of Twin Peaks inspired wall art I made from some clay discs, mounted on red fabric.
Each of the iconic symbols already have their own individual symmetry, but after a lot of fiddling about, the whole image becomes but a small component in larger masterpieces…
How did your search for symmetrical satisfaction go..?
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post. Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Two days of rainy weather and a thunderstorm, with one short afternoon of sunshine, that’s what passes for an English summer weekend, apparently. So I took my pictures for The Cosmic Photo Challenge indoors.
Today we’re looking at; Motion.
I tried a few more long exposure experiments; there’s a moving shot with a clear and blurred image in the same frame and a quick burst of lightning for good measure. Each of these was captured in a single shot.
*edit: ok, it is the third time this has happened, so I’m blaming WordPress for the scheduling glitch, as this post was definitely set to post tomorrow morning.
What moving pictures did you find for us..?
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post. Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
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